Transitions: New Chief at Gettysburg College, Kennesaw State U. Names New Provost

Chief executives

Appointments

Robin C. Capehart, former president of West Liberty University, has been named interim president of Bluefield State College. He will replace Ted Lewis, who became acting president when Marsha Krotseng stepped down in December.

Sarah B. Drummond, chief academic officer at Andover Newton Theological School, has been named president. She will succeed Martin Copenhaver, who plans to retire on June 30. She will also serve as founding dean of Andover Newton Seminary at Yale.

Susan R. Ewing, interim director of Cranbrook Academy of Art since August, has been named to the post permanently.

Darrin Good, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Whittier College, will become president of Nebraska Wesleyan University on July 1. He will succeed Fred Ohles, who plans to retire.

Robert W. Iuliano, senior vice president and general counsel, deputy to the president at Harvard University, will become president of Gettysburg College on July 1. He will succeed Janet Morgan Riggs, who plans to retire.

Joseph E. Nyre, president of Iona College since 2011, will become president of Seton Hall University on August 1. He will replace Mary J. Meehan, who has served as interim president since March 2017.

Resignations

Jonathan Veitch, president of Occidental College since 2009, plans to step down in June 2020.

Retirements

Eduardo J. Padrón, president of Miami Dade College since 1995, plans to step down this summer.

Everett Ward, president of Saint Augustine’s University, in North Carolina, since 2014, plans to retire on July 24.

Chief academic officers

Appointments

Kathy Schwaig, dean of the Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University, will become provost and vice president for academic affairs on February 18.

Resignations

Craig Kennedy, executive vice president and provost at the University of Connecticut, plans to step down and return to the faculty on March 1.

Other top administrators

Appointments

Matthew D. Davis, associate vice president for finance at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, has been named vice president for finance.

Megan C. Elliott, senior director of human resources at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, has been named vice president for human and environmental services.

Matthew Manfra, interim vice president for advancement at the George Washington University, has been named vice president for institutional advancement at Georgian Court University.

Carin Nuernberg, vice president for online education for Berklee Online, has been named vice president for academic strategy at Berklee College of Music.

Howard Spearman, former vice president for student affairs and chief student-services officer at Rock Valley College, became vice president for student affairs and chief student-services officer at Madison Area Technical College on January 22.

Sherry Turner, director of institutional success and support for United Negro College Fund’s Institute for Capacity Building, will become vice president for strategic initiatives at Rhodes College on February 18.

Deans

Appointments

Lorna Finnegan, executive associate dean and associate professor of health-systems science at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing, will become dean of the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing at Loyola University in July.

Michael Johnson-Cramer, founding director and former interim dean of the Freeman College of Management at Bucknell University, will become dean of business and the McCallum Graduate School at Bentley University on July 1.

Kate Hausbeck Korgan, interim dean of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas Graduate College since 2013, was named to the post permanently on January 23.

Lee A. Learman, senior associate dean of academic affairs and senior associate dean of graduate medical education at Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, has been named dean of the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.

Mark Martin, chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, will become dean of the School of Law at Regent University on March 1.

James E. Payne, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Benedictine University, will become dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Texas at El Paso on May 1.

Andrew Rich, chief executive of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation and visiting professor at City College of City University of New York, has been named dean of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership.

Gordon Schmidt, interim dean of the School of Health Professions at New York Institute of Technology, has been named to the post permanently.

Eileen Strempel, senior vice provost for academic affairs and a professor of voice in the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, will become the inaugural dean of the Herb Alpert School of Music at the University of California at Los Angeles on July 8.

Department chairs

Appointments

Howard Liu, interim chair of the department of psychiatry at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, has been named to the post permanently.

Mohanakrishnan Sathyamoorthy, chief of the medical staff and chief of the cardiovascular division at Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center, has been named chair of internal medicine at the Texas Christian University and University of North Texas Health Science Center School of Medicine.

Other administrators

Appointments

Ricky Bluthenthal, a professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, has been named associate dean for social justice in the school’s new Office of Social Justice.

Donald Hackmann, a professor of educational leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, became director of the School of Education in the College of Human Sciences Iowa State University on July 1.

Lesley Irvine, director of athletics and the chair of physical education at Pomona and Pitzer Colleges, will become vice president and director of athletics at Colorado College effective June 1.

Cynthia B. Malinick, vice president for cultural assets at the Girl Scouts of the USA, will become director and chief curator of the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University on February 11.

Wendy W. Moe, a professor in the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland at College Park, has been named associate dean of master’s programs for the college.

Joseph L. Petrosky, dean of engineering and advanced technology at Macomb Community College, has been named associate vice chancellor for academic affairs at Oakland Community College.

Faculty

Appointments

Margot Lee Shetterly, author of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (William Morrow, 2016), has been named a visiting scholar in the McIntire School of Commerce and School of Engineering at the University of Virginia.

Organizations and Agencies

Appointments

Tara Hofmann, chief operating and organizational development officer at AFS-USA, has been named president.

Resignations

David Buhler, commissioner of the Utah System of Higher Education, plans to step down at the end of 2019.

Deaths

Sister Mary Paul Hickey, the founder of the Campus School of Carlow University, died on January 16. She was 97. Hickey opened the Mount Mercy College Campus School as a demonstration school for the education department in 1963. She served as director until the 1980s, returned in the 1990s, and then stayed until her retirement in 2006.

Harold L. (Hal) Kahn, professor emeritus of history at Stanford University, died on December 11. He was 88.

Theodore Rabb, professor emeritus of history at Princeton University, died on January 7. He was 81. Rabb co-founded the Journal of Interdisciplinary History in 1970. He specialized in 16th- and 17th-century Europe, and his first book was Enterprise and Empire (Harvard University Press, 1967).

Irene Leota Moore Wright, former dean of students at Albany State College, died on January 10. She was 93. Wright resigned as dean in protest of the expulsion of students for protesting against racial violence and discrimination. She served as a faculty member at Atlanta University, Clark College, Spelman College, Harris Teachers College, Tuskegee Institute, Albany State College, and Saint Louis University.

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